David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI 'Could Kill Us All' This Decade | Common DreamsEnglish
4·16 hours agoJacob Coxon turns out to be solid EA all the way down, since his student days at Cambridge
his Goodreads is a fucking delight. You can tell he’s a rationalist because his top books are E. T. Jaynes and Scott Aaronson. He tried Mishima and couldn’t hack the distance, and I’m going to go so far as to say he didn’t read Mishima because he was looking for a good writer, but because he heard Mishima was a reactionary.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
2·2 days agoand the right situation is work that should not be done
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
3·2 days agotooled and died
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
7·2 days agoyor mums a tool
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
6·2 days agoyeah “I didn’t look at the thing but I must post about it anyway” doesn’t play here
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
41·2 days agothey tried so hard to fluff the AI
oh yeah he’s an enthusiastic techfash
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026English
11·7 days agooh boy do i have notes on this fucker, going back to jan 2025
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Bitcoin Movie With AI Sets and Lighting: "I am afraid of AI... you’re going to work with it"English
2·8 days agoand a better personality with better opinions
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Bitcoin Movie With AI Sets and Lighting: "I am afraid of AI... you’re going to work with it"English
3·8 days agodefending the only work you can get
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026English
5·8 days agoit’s run by neoreactionaries
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Irreplaceable.org is your new *professional* anti-AI org! oh, it's the Effective Altruists againEnglish
8·9 days agooh boy are you in the right sub to hear about it
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.English
3·11 days agodonor-advised funds
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
15·14 days agoneovim is hearty fashtech now https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117167738907856218
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.English
9·14 days agothe fuckin make a wish foundation is more effective than EA
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
4·17 days agowhere’s the rationalist smoking gun? or is that just The Argument?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
2·18 days agoApache is terrible as an SSL terminator IME
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of RationalityEnglish
12·18 days agofwiw, that HP cult doesn’t have a body count (that I know of)
















excuse me sir, you cannot defame VolksBot1488 with these outrageous claims it was not just stretching its arm due to a cramp